Where is your studio located?

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Where is your studio?

  • Living Room or Den

    Votes: 90 9.1%

  • Spare Bedroom

    Votes: 326 33.1%

  • Closet

    Votes: 21 2.1%

  • Bathroom

    Votes: 5 0.5%

  • Basement/Rec Room

    Votes: 282 28.6%

  • Garage (Connected to house)

    Votes: 58 5.9%

  • Shed, Outbuilding, or Freestanding Garage

    Votes: 66 6.7%

  • Built a Freestanding Studio from the ground up

    Votes: 32 3.2%

  • Other (Specify)

    Votes: 89 9.0%

  • What's a studio?

    Votes: 16 1.6%
  • Total voters
    985
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My studio is in our basement storm cellar. The two exterior walls (I'm almost completely underground on this side of the basement, so there is just earth and rock on the other side) are 12" concrete foundation. The ceiling and interior walls are 8" concrete. I have a double door, the outer door is hollow steel, inner door is solid wood, both sealed to the steel clad concrete threshold. When the doors are closed, it's quiet inside. So quiet that the power supply hum from my Casio MIDI keyboard seems loud enough in there that I turn it off when I'm not using it.

Of course, the huge challenge has been to tame the awe-inspiring bass modes enough to make it a useful space, which I have just barely accomplished.

My DAW CPU and my 3M M-79 1/2" 4-track both live just outside the door and their cables run under doors, so that their noise isn't a problem.

Otto
 
RICK FITZPATRICK said:
Its not the acoustics that you should worry about. Its isolation if you need it where the trailer is. There is virtually none as the construction of mobil homes are very lightweight assemblys, and are close to impossible to really beef up as the framing, especially the roof/ceiling structural elements are to lightweight to add any significant mass to. However, transmission through the floor is another issue even if you could beef up the walls and ceiling. And since this is
ONE LEAF assembly on a frame that cannot be sealed with an exterior leaf, its virtually a drum head that not only has close to zero transmission loss, also will resonate at its natural frequency. So I hope isolation isn't a problem.


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I think you are talking about pissing off the neighbors Right? If so, I have intentions on being very isolated. I work at the edge of the subburbs around the cincinnati area (on the Kentucky side), so getting out into the middle of nowhere is actually the only way a barely employed musician like myself can really afford a place on their own dime. So trust me, I will be in BFE with no real worries about neighbors, but I still think I may have to rethink this idea when I do get out. Hoping housing prices really start to fall round here so I can have an easier time getting out that way.
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It's not just about pissing off neighbors you also want to keep unwanted sound from getting in.
I several vocal tracks with dogs barking, lawn mowers, woodpeckers, and airplanes. :D
 
My studio is in my actual bedroom. I sleep in the walk-in closet, it's about bed sized and shaped, so it's al good.
 
zacanger said:
My studio is in my actual bedroom. I sleep in the walk-in closet, it's about bed sized and shaped, so it's al good.
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Now thats dedication! :D
 
EdWonbass said:
Now thats dedication! :D
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::shrug:: well, there just wasn't enough room for a bed AND a drum-kit, so the drums won out. it's not bad, though, i use a lot of padding instead a mattress, and it's pretty snug.
 
BlockHouse

Have a big old flat roofed block garage, 1000 sq ft or so, converted 1/2 of it into a well-isolated and insulated studio. Now I need to get the roof replaced, so it goes on and on.
A guy who owned the house in the '30s built the garage as a shop- he was the town mechanic until into the '50's. He raised his family on the work he did in there. Sweet story. Of course, he also hung himself inthe root cellar.....
 
Hey Mo....so if your bro's in the bedroom bangin' some chick right when you get an idea for a nice beat...you're screwed? Man that's gotta suck...but maybe he might let you join in or something?
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yeah it sucks...

plus I get home at 7 (that's when I have dinner) and he goes to bed at 10.15.

I really want to move out :(

I had 2 rooms, but I moved back with my parents and oh well, this is right now.

But I'm hopinh to move out in february, so that's cool.
 
Built a room inside the garage for practice and recording...works great, but my car got broken into. :mad:
 
Garage, disconnected from the house.

It's a two car garage, with two levels. I wasn't allowed to use the entire thing since my wife wanted storage on the main floor. The upstairs is too small anyway, only 6 foot 1 down the middle.

Anyway, we took a chunk on the end, and put up a wall that runs down the 20 foot length. The width of the room was just over 10 feet, but sound proofing materials have taken about under a foot or so off making in a little on the narrow side. It's about 9.5 X 18.5 give or take.

Sound proofing isn't the best, but seems to do the job at keeping sound out of the room. Room is surrounded by Roxul Safe n Sound hanging a few inches from the walls, in batts made from blue tarps. I'm in the process of building curtains made from moving blankets that will hang in front of the Roxul on a track system.
 
Spare room for now. Soon to be a basement finished to be a studio....:D
Can't waite!

F.S.
 
Built new studio/garage. 30' x 64' x 10' ceilings. 30' x 30' is studio. The rest is garage area. Seperate 200 amp service and its heated and air conditioned. If I need more space I can take over more garage space.
 
just finished the basement into a studio, 600 sqft, live room, tracking room, vocal booth, and a small lounge area
 
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